Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A group of soldiers or paramilitary detailed to execute someone, usually by rifle shot, or to discharge their weapons ceremonially at a funeral.
WordNet
n. a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution [syn: firing party]
Wikipedia
Firing Squad is hardcore rap group M.O.P.'s second album released on Relativity Records in 1996. It features production by DJ Premier, Big Jaz, Ali Dee, and M.O.P. & Laze E. Laze and guest appearances by Kool G Rap, Teflon, and Battle. The whole album was mixed and overseen by DJ Premier, a tradition that would also carry on over the next two M.O.P. albums. The album is broken down track-by-track by M.O.P. in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique.
A firing squad most commonly refers to a group of persons who together execute a prisoner by shooting with firearms in an organized event called an execution by firing squad.
Firing squad may also refer to:
- Firing Squad (album), a 1996 album by rap group M.O.P.
- Firing squad synchronization problem, a problem in computer science first proposed in 1957
- Firing Squad (film) a 1990 Canadian made for television film based on the 1958 novel Execution
Usage examples of "firing squad".
Another row fell before a Colonist firing squad as he watched, and a white-bearded imam preached from an open Koran behind them as a new batch marched up.
Another element of spy fiction was the canard about how people in the intelligence business were willing to take their cyanide capsules or face a firing squad with a song in their hearts.
His government and army would survive this debacle long enough for him to see the inside of a courtroom and the pockmarked wall before the firing squad.
Under the laws of war, a sentry who fell asleep at his post could go up in front of a firing squad.
Another row fell before a Colonist firing squad as he watched, and a white-beardedimam preached from an open Koran behind them as a new batch marched up.
At length he responded, 'I did it because I couldn't sit there and watch you walk jauntily to a firing squad with your fucking stiff upper lip.
Emerson took a deep breath and pushed his chair away from the oak table a little, as though he was about to face a firing squad.
Since the court-martial and the firing squad they'd been directing their shock and anger at Z-B in the form of Captain Bryant and Ebrey Zhang.
Somehow, he'd never thought death would claim him like this, tied to a stake in front of a firing squad, somewhere inside a third-rate, third-world country thousands of miles from home.
The two ringleaders were already dead, Ramazani in front of a firing squad only hours ago, Admiral Sahman on the bridge of the Yuduki Maru during the raid.
He is sitting up in a hospital bed surrounded by a firing squad of hot klieg lights that make it difficult to see anything else.
Rogue Squadron stood before them, arrayed as precisely as a firing squad.